The prospects of multilateralism in transatlantic climate change policy - Christiane Lemke

Climate change policy stands out as a highly salient issue in European and in American public opinion. Yet progress in joint transatlantic climate change action has been rather slow and fragmented. This talk presents recent research weighing partisan polarization and regional differences in the U.S. and country variations in the EU as plausible hurdles to policy consistency. It argues that, beneath broader trends in shared concerns, roadblocks on the national level inhibit the implementation of coherent and effective transatlantic climate change policies.

Christiane Lemke is Emerita Professor of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover/Germany and senior non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. Her research focuses on International Relations, European politics, right-wing populism, and transatlantic relations. She received her phD and Habilitation at the Free University Berlin. She was co-founder of the interdisciplinary Jean Monnet European Studies Center in Hannover and, from 2007 until 2013, she served as the director of the Center.

Christiane Lemke was a Visiting Krupp Chair at Harvard University, visiting professor at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Max Weber Chair for German and European Politics at New York University (2010-2014). Her publications include Germany Today. Politics and Policies in a Changing World (Rowman and Littlefield 2018, with Helga Welsh); International Relations (in German, 2018, de Gruyter Oldenbourg); Right-Wing Populism and International Issues. A Case Study of the Alternative for Germany, German Politics and Society, Special Issue on the Alternative for Germany, ed. by Eric Langenbacher, Issue 134, Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 90-108. The Battle for the White House. The US Presidential Elections 2020, (Springer VS 2023; with Jakob Wiedekind). Finding Common Ground in Uncertain Times. Assessing the Prospect of Multilateralism in Transatlantic Climate Change Policy. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 1/2023.